updated 03:30 pm EDT, Tue July 28, 2009

WhoPaste 3.0 released

Mac-Chi has released v3.0 of its contact-grabbing utility, WhoPaste. The application is used create contact records from text copied to the Clipboard, in a variety of programs including Address Book, Daylite, Entourage and Google Contacts. The latest version includes a host of new features, such as the ability to detect existing matches in Address Book.

The match detection in Address Book lets users manually merge data into an existing Address Book record. Likewise new is the ability to add e-mail-to-SMS addresses to existing cellphone contacts, enabling free text messaging. Separately, if extracted data from Mail or Entourage does not include an e-mail address, users can now add a sender's address to new contact info.

WhoPaste 3.0 requires Mac OS X 10.4.3, and is available to download for $10.